Published today in Current Biology, a new study shows that the Yangtze finless porpoise has lost over 65% of its historic ...

In a creative fusion of science and literature, researchers trace the past range and decline of a rare Chinese porpoise ...

Endemic to China's Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise is known for its intelligence and charismatic appearance; it ...

Along the Yangtze River, ecological restoration has been in process through the principle of "enhancing conservation while ...

New research combines centuries-old Chinese poetry with modern biodiversity science to reveal a 65% decline in the Yangtze ...

Ancient Chinese poems provided insights into the decline of the critically endangered Yangtze River's finless porpoise. A ...

"Compared to fish, Yangtze finless porpoises are pretty ... the 1950s that blocked off movement to and from the river's mainstem. Two other species endemic to the Yangtze -- the baiji dolphin ...

Analyzing ancient Chinese poetry allowed researchers to understand where humans went wrong in protecting the now critically ...

Yangtze finless porpoises, affectionately referred to as the Yangtze River's "smiling angels," are ... porpoises seeing the positive impacts, but fish populations and local biodiversity are ...

Now, life in the river has slowly improved since the fishing ban began. Last year, 227 species of native fish were found in the Yangtze River basin. This is 34 more than the previous year.